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WASHINGTON Relaxing federal rules on cross-ownership of daily newspapers and nearby broadcast media would leave public debate vulnerable to domination by few voices in communities in 12 states, anti-consolidation groups […]

NEW YORK Federal regulators said they would study the link between media and advertising and childhood obesity.The research linking childhood obesity with media and advertising “troubles me as a parent […]

Newspapers will Achieve only modest advertising growth in 2007 as circulation woes continue, although the same online phenomenon sapping readership should boost revenue from Web ads, according to forecasters.Predictions of […]

WASHINGTON Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is launching an internal probe of what happened to two studies of media consolidation the agency kept from the public.The action was disclosed […]

WASHINGTON The newest member of the Federal Communications Commission today said the agency might separately consider parts of media ownership rules.The stance by Robert McDowell, a Republican who took office […]

WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Commission is asking a federal court for time to consider affiliates’ arguments that the agency erred in March when it decided, without issuing fines, that the […]

WASHINGTON Partisan tensions flared here yesterday as federal regulators began a sweeping review of rules that limit corporations’ ownership of broadcast stations and newspapers. Acting for the first time since […]

WASHINGTON A new draft of U.S. Senate telecommunications legislation eliminates language that would have forced cable operators to share regional sports programming.The draft is the third version of the massive […]